Giants
With the end of 2025 approaching, I ask you one question…
Have you dealt with your giant?
Or maybe a better question is are you even aware of the giant?
Well to be honest with you, I’m convinced that for a large period of time nobody in their right mind would have ever considered confronting a giant. Why? Because giants are big, menacing, and deadly. Yet, despite all of those odds, I believe that our understanding of giants shifted when a boy named David fought a giant named Goliath. And what ended up happening? David won.
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Now, before I go any further I just want you to imagine what it must’ve been like to view the death of Goliath. The silence and shock watching the giant fall. Are our eyes deceiving us? The crowd probably thought. How could this shepherd boy slay a giant so easily? In just mere minutes, the giant was dead; but not only that, Goliath was utterly decapitated. Hence, David seemed to make history that giants aren’t invincible, they CAN be slain.
“In Just mere minutes, the giant was dead; but not only that, Goliath was utterly decapitated”
Now let me tell you something, what might surprise you is this: I did not write this blog post to talk about the David and Goliath story. What actually inspired me to write this post was a hidden story in scripture of what happened after.
Specifically, in 1 Chronicles 20:4-8 there is a little section of scripture in which giants reappear.
To be specific, there we read a story about three other giants…
Sippai one of the sons of Goliath.
Lahmi the brother of Goliath.
And the Unknown Giant one of Goliath’s sons.
Yet, interestingly enough, as these three giants are mentioned, so are three other people…
Sibbechai the Hushathite.
Elhanan the son of Jair.
And Jonathan the son of Shimea.
Now I know what you’re thinking? Who the heck are these guys? Well, wouldn’t it be interesting to learn that these three men were servants of David. Yet not only that, they were servants of David who would slay a giant too. Specifically, Sibbechai ends up slaying the giant Sippai. Elhanan ends up slaying the giant Lahmi. And Jonathan ends up killing his giant so bad, that they don’t even know what the giant’s name was. Ouch.
So then hear me very closely before I say this next thing. Could David’s kill have impacted his peers? In other words, what if David’s victory gave his servants the power to fight too? What if killing your giant gives other people permission to kill theirs?
“What if killing your giant gives other people permission to kill theirs?”
I find this idea fascinating! Could it be that witnessing a giant get slain allows you yourself to slay a giant. That makes so much sense to me; yet to be honest with you, this idea seems almost foreign in our current society.
For instance, let me ask you this, when is the last time you’ve seen someone slay a giant?
No, no, no, I’m not talking about a literal giant! When is the last time you’ve seen someone slaughter and decapitate an impossibly gigantic challenge or circumstance?
Maybe it was a work giant, a financial giant, a health giant, or another giant. When was the last time you’ve witnessed a giant fall? (Literally pause and think of a moment right now).
For me, I believe that the most recent battle that I witnessed was my grandfather’s fight with a brain bleed. After numerous instances with fainting and vertigo, my grandfather got hit hard when he collapsed on a zoom call alone at his house. Luckily, the person on the zoom call took action and called 911. From there, my grandfather was taken to the hospital where they discovered bleeding in his brain. He immediately underwent brain surgery. And he won.
My family watched, as the giant fell down. And every time one giant falls, three more witnesses might feel empowered to slay other giants.
Nonetheless, with all of this being said, I think this is a PIVOTAL concept for navigating hardship. I don’t know what giant might be looming over you, but I want to encourage you, that the giant isn’t invincible, and the giant can and needs to be slain. As we enter 2026 let’s be a community of giant killers! For when you kill a giant, you give others permission to kill too.
